I attended the panel discussion on “Best Practices for Establishing a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace” at the American Physical Society’s April Meeting this year. I felt that it was important that the discussion we had reaches a wider audience, hence this post! The panel consisted of Jesús Pando, Willie Rockward, Arlene Maclin, and Ansel Neunzert.…

I have compiled 10 tips on giving a great talk in this post 🙂 Getting ready to give your first talk? Or just looking to improve your game a bit? We can ALL do better at giving talks. Talks are tricky and there is a great variety of them too: talks given to your research…

Worrying about your Ph.D. candidacy exam (prelim)? Been there, and here to help! I will cover everything from what candidacy is and what a first-year grad student should focus on, to what to do on the day of your oral exam. It’s an exam. Get ready to study 🙂 Make sure to visit your school’s…

My academic journey started when I was 11 and decided that I wanted to be a physicist. I learned that rest and motion were relative and that the grand unified theory still needed a lot of help. But I never scored the highest marks in physics. I always did better in biology, chemistry, and of…

When I ended up leaving academia after graduate school to start a consulting job, life-long academics told me that was it for me. “You are leaving physics…!! I am afraid…” “It’s always sad to see promising young people decide to leave the field…” “You were doing particle astrophysics! Why would you ever leave that?” “You can’t…